JCU - Industrial Chemistry Guide

This guide is a select listing of information resources in Industrial Chemistry. For a more comprehensive view of the collection please consult the online catalogue, Tropicat. A mor e complete general guide Finding Information and subject guides such as Molecular Science are available from InfoHelp.

The location prefix R denotes the Reference collection.

Valid subject headings for Industrial Chemistry include "Chemical Engineering" and "Chemistry, Technical". See the LC subject headings (R 025.33 UNI 1992) or InfoHelp for more suggestions.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Bennet, E. (Ed.). (1986). Concise chemical and technical dictionary. New York: Chemical Publishing Co.	R 540.3 CON
Eckroth, D., Kirk, R., Othmer, D. & Grayson, M. (Eds.). (1978-1984). Encyclopedia of chemical technology. (24 vols.) (3rd ed.). New York: Wiley.	R 660.03 ENC S1
McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology: An international reference work in twenty volumes including an index. (1992). (7th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.	R 503 MACG 1992
Noether, D. & Noether, H. (1993). Encyclopaedic dictionary of chemical technology. New York: VCH.	R 660.03 NOE
Parker, S.P. (Ed.). (1994). McGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms. (5th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.	R 503 MACG T2 1994

Chemical Nomenclature

Block, B.P. & Powell, W.H. et. al. (1990). Inorganic chemical nomenclature: Principles and practice. Washington, D.C: American Chemical Society	546.014 BLO
Pamico, R. & Powell, W.H. & Reicher, J. (1993). A guide to IUPACA nomenclature of organic compounds: Recommendations 1993. Oxford: Blackwell.	574.0014 INT

Handbooks, Statistics and Tables

Australian Bureau of Statistics. Catalogue of publications and products. (current issue)	R 319.4 P1 1101.0
Bennett, H. (Ed.). (1968-1971). The chemical formulary: A condensed collection of valuable, timely, practical formulae for making thousands of products in all fields of industry (3 vols.). New York: Chemical Publishing Co.	R 660.0212 BEN
Bretherick, L. (1990). Bretherick's handbook of reactive chemical hazards (4th ed.). London: Butterworths.	660.028 BRE 1990
Bruno, T.J. & Svoronos, P.D.N. (1986). Basic tables for chemical analysis. Gaitherburg: U.S. National Bureau of Standards.	543.00212 BRU
Perry, R., Green, D.W. & Maloney, J.O. (Eds). (1997). Perry's chemical engineer's handbook. (7th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.	R 660.28 CHE 1997
Royal Society of Chemistry. Chemical safety data sheets (2 vols.) (1989+). Nottingham, England: Royal Society of Chemistry.	R 604.7 CHE
Shugar, G.J. & Ballinger, J.T. (1990). Chemical technician's ready reference handbook. (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.	542 CHE T2 1990
Technometrics: a journal of statistics for the physical, chemical and engineering sciences. (1959+)	310 P13

Journal Indexes

Applied Science and Technology index 1964-1996	R 600 APP
Chemical abstracts 1907+	R 540 P5
Engineering index 1960+	R 620.016 ENG
Pollution abstracts 1970-1996	R 614.7 P1
Process and chemical engineering 1992+	R 660.016 P1

Internet Resources

Some journal indexing services are held as remote computer database files accessed via the Internet. Several of these services provide the full text of a range of journals. Some require passwords available from InfoHelp. A number of electronic database services are listed on the Library's WWW Resources page.

Ideal contains full text Academic Press articles from scientific and technical journals.

FirstSearch contains General Science and Engineering and Technical databases.

Infotrac contains Expanded Academic ASAP databases with many full text articles.

UnCover contains over 17,000 English language titles in a citation database.

Bibliographies - a guide to the literature

Bottle, R.T. & Rowland, J.F.B. (1993). Information sources in chemistry (4th ed.). London: Bowker-Saur.	R 540.16 USE 1993
Wiggins, G. (1991). Chemical information sources. New York: McGraw-Hill.	540.72 WIG

Theses and Style Guide

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